Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page And John Paul Jones Reveal They Had Come Pretty Close To Opening A New Band Leaving Out Robert Plant

Legendary rock band, Led Zeppelin's guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist, keyboardist John Paul Jones have revealed that they came pretty close to start a new band.

Led Zeppelin gave a one-off reunion show in 2007 where Page, Paul Jones and vocalist Robert Plant performed. But Page and Paul Jones were already contemplating on getting back without Plant. Page and Jones were serious about doing something new. So they even wrote new material.

"It seemed the right thing to go in and start playing new material. I thought we really should play to our strengths here, which was the music. But there were a lot of movements to bring in singers and do this, that and the other. And that would've changed the character too early from what we were doing. I won't say there was pressure, but there was a lot of hinting about this singer and that singer. For me it was more a question of, let's see what we can really do. And I don't think we got a chance to do that," said Page, Blabbermouth reported.

Jones says that it was "a total misunderstanding" about calling 'Zeppelin with a new singer' rumors, "I said, 'Of course, if we go out (on the road), we're going to have to do some Zeppelin numbers.' And there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, we rehearsed 'Carouselambra,' which we've never done live before, and we had a bunch of new material done. But Jimmy and I couldn't agree on singers."

Though they auditioned many singers they were not able to get anyone who was close to Plant. "I quite liked Myles Kennedy. He's got the range, but his voice is completely different than Robert's. Which was fine by me, because it was going to be a completely different band. But it didn't work out and we all moved on."